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GLLAPSIBLE WALL CLTHES DRIER.

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I-IENRY DICKSON, OF MIDDLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS.

COLLAPSIBLE WALL CLOTHES-DRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 695,379, dated March 11, 1902. Application filed December 27, 1901 l Serial No. 87,439. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, HENRY Dickson, of Middleboro, in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvementin a Collapsible Wall Clothes-Driel, of which the following, taken in connection With the accompanying drawings, is a specilication.

My invention relates to that class of clothesdriers that are usually attached to the Walls of a room and when not in use may be collapsed, and thus made to occupy butlittle space; and it consists in the peculiar manner A in which the supporting-arms are held in their extended or horizontal position, the object being to so make the drier that it shall be very strong when extended for use and very easily folded when not used. This object I attain by means of the mechanism shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure lis a front view of my drier. One of the arms is shown as extended and the others as they appear when collapsed or folded downward. Fig. 2 is a vertical section showing one of the arms extended and the others down. My clothes drier, as represented in the drawings, consists of a wall-piece A A', which may be attachedA to the Wall by means of nails or screws. To the Wall-piece A A are attached three bracketpieces B, C, and H. The upper bracket-piece B is made semicircular and has pivoted to it all of the clothessupporting arms D, each arm having a pivot, as shown at D2. As all of the arms D are alike and are supported by the same system of brace-links, I will describe one set only. The arm D, Fig. 2, is shown in its horizontal position-that is, in the position in which it stands when in use. The links that support the arm are, beginning at the lower one, the

link G, pivoted at G/ to the lower bracketn piece H. The upper end of the link G has pivoted to it al second link F, connected by the pivot F', anda pair of links E E, serving to connect the link F to the arm D by means of pivots at E and D. To prevent the link G from falling back, I have the bracket-piece C indented, as indicated at c.

When it is desired to turn the arms D down, the user can draw the upper end of the link G outward and downward, as indicated by the dotted curve f f, Fig. 2. This action will cause the lower end of the link F to follow in the same dotted line, thus causing the short links E E to follow and to allow the arm D to hang down-that is, to take the position of the othell arms.

Itis obvious that all the arms D may be eX- tended at the same time or that any desired number of them may be extended and the remainder allowed to remain in their hanging position.

I claim-- In a clothes-drier the arms, D, each having a system of supporting-links consisting of a link pivoted at its lower end to a bracketpiece, and having a back support as described, a second link pivoted to the upper end of the first-mentioned link, and connected to the said arm by a pair of links, E, E, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses, on this 18th day of December, A. D. 1901.

HENRY DIOKSON.

lVitnesses:

WILLIAM A. ANDREWS, C. L. HATHAWAY. 

